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Premium Olympian, ex-Russian cop and an illicit LSD lab: How an international drug cartel in Goa was busted In April, the NCB arrested two Russian nationals and two Indians for their alleged involvement in an international drug cartel. The arrests helped the drug enforcement agency net one of its biggest seizures of LSD stamps in Goa in recent years On April 28 evening, a team from the Goa unit of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) reached Ashwem beach in North Goa, waded right into the waters and netted their big fish. Andre, a well-built former Russian policeman, wrestled with the officials in the water for a few minutes, but eventually, he gave up. With that, the NCB officials had joined the dots to uncover one of the larger international drug cartels operating in Goa — allegedly involving Andre (46), Russian Olympian Svetlana Varganova (59) and a local peddler — and eventually lead them to an illicit LSD manufacturing unit in the Anjuna area on Monday. Over the past fortnight, the NCB has arrested four people — Varganova, Andre, local peddler Akash and drug manufacturer A Kundu — for their alleged involvement in running the cartel. The NCB recovered a large contraband of narcotics, including 2,552 LSD blots, cocaine, charas, hydroponic weed, some MDMA powder, 25 psilocybin mushroom capsules, fake identification documents and drug sale proceeds in Indian and foreign currency from the possession of the accused. In terms of scale, the NCB officials said, the haul is one o...

Pietro Scozzari / Image Yuri sits down under the string of lights that shine on the roof terrace of the bar and the group of somewhat too loud, somewhat too hyper young people at the next table. It’s Wednesday evening in the Indian tourist resort of Goa, just before 11 p.m., and Yuri is off work. «I was going to stay for about a month. But this shit is lasting longer than I thought. I had to earn money,» he says. Yuri comes from Moscow and is a cook in the bar. «The shit» he refers to is the war in Ukraine, which he's hiding from in India. Goa is not actually a single place. Rather, it's a long stretch of coastline, a collection of beaches and palm trees on India's west coast. You can have the same avocado toast for breakfast here as in Bali, and the same cool beer at sunset as in Thailand, only both are cheaper in Goa. Russians have been coming here as tourists for many years, and there are charter flights between Moscow and Goa. This season, however, something is different: Goa is teeming with young Russian men who are staying for more than just a few weeks. Since Vladimir Putin announced a mobilization on Sept. 21, 2022, hundreds of thousands of Russian men are reported to have left the country. Some of them are now living in Goa, where they are meeting Russians who have lived there for a long time, as well as Ukrainians who can’t go back to their homeland. For months, world politics have been wafting under Goa's parties like a low humming bass. Can the war simply be ig...

"Some of these foreign tourists visit Goa with the intention to do illicit trade of drugs. They rent a room for a long stay and get involved in this trade. They sell it to their own people visiting here and also to others. Some of them also become guides tourists having same nationality, and make a way to supply them drugs. It becomes easy for them," a police officer on condition of anonymity said.

Life in Goa seems to be a paradise for many. It was not without reason that hippies found their true homeland here in the ’60s, continuing to live in Goa today. Many of our compatriots also like this Europeanized part of India. How do you legally establish yourself in Goa? What are the pros and cons of living in your new homeland? What is the feedback from Russians who obtained citizenship and permanent residence in India? This and much more will be discussed in the article. A few final tips Russians in Goa Abroad, our compatriots are generally referred to as Russians, not divided into specific nationalities. To avoid confusion, I suggest we go this way and call us all Russians in general. As statistics show, today in India there are about a thousand of our former compatriots who have taken Indian citizenship and have a permanent place of residence in India, mainly in its capital, There are several hundred Russians living in Goa today who have legally formalized their relationship with India. Although many Russians live in the state permanently unofficially, in today’s fashionable status of downshifters. According to statistics on the coast of the Arabian Sea in Goa, today there are about a million compatriots who come here for the winter, to survive the harsh Russian winter in the subequatorial paradise. They are called eternal tourists. Where do the Russians live in Goa? The Russians in North Goa has a separate village Morjim with the surrounding beach of the same na...

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ARAMBOL: The scene at Monday night saw several events organised by foreigners at Morjim and Arambol. A party held in an empty space in front of a house at the far end of Arambol village had at least 200 guests, mostly foreigners, dancing to Shiva and Ganesh stotras and devotional songs in the Indipop style. While they may be in a distant country, war is not far from their minds. This past week, citizens of the two nations residing in Arambol, Ashvem and Morjim along the state’s northern coastal belt tapped several modes of spreading the message of Last Monday, a group of Ukrainians held a peace march at Arambol beach. While no Russians participated, they agreed that the war should end at the earliest. “I don’t like war and am all for peace,” said Lisa, a Russian who is in Goa with her family for a month-long vacation. Although she did not attend the protest march, she questioned why its participants were holding Ukraine flags when the march was all about peace. Another Russian, Arsenij, who has been in Goa for a little over a month, said he was extremely worried when he heard his country had begun invading Ukraine. “For two days on the trot, I read only war-related news on the internet. But there is a lot of propaganda and it is unclear as to what exactly is going on,” he said. While he added that he would like to stay longer in Goa and work, a 40-year-old Ukrainian woman nearby preferred to take in the sunset from her deck bed rather than speak about the fighting in her c...

Earlier this week, as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine picked up place, I joined a group of about 100 people arching down Goa’s Arambol beach to demonstrate solidarity with the people of Ukraine and to demand a peaceful resolution to the conflict. Many of those around me carried Ukrainian flags. Some had signs saying, “Stop the War.” Other signs were more blunt” “Fuck Putin” Goa is a popular destination for tourists from both Russia and Ukraine. Before the pandemic, between October 2018 to May 2019, approximately 90,000 tourists from Russia arrived in Goa. This season, only Credit: Harsha Prabhu Among the marchers in Arambol on Monday were many Russians, Ukranians Belorussians, a few from other European nations and some Indians too. “Glory to Ukraine,” a Ukrainian woman sang. “Glory to our heroes.” The most popular chant was: “We want peace!” “We didn’t know this would happen,” said a Russian woman from Tatarstan, one of the country’s 22 republics. “This is not our choice. I want to support Ukraine but I also want peace.” A young Indo-Russian woman noted that war in the 21st century is crazy. “Putin will destroy Ukraine, Russia and the world, if it goes nuclear,” she warned. A Belorussian woman was angered by Russia’s decision to move troops and arms through her country: “Putin is using our country to attack Ukraine.” Credit: Harsha Prabhu A teenage Russian boy had his own take on the situation. To being with, he was appalled at “Russian police attacking peace demonstrators in...